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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1901
Page
4
A broad critique of the steel strike and its impact on families, especially women and children, argues for fair labor standards without gender bias. It notes unions must model justice, questions sweatshop practices, and highlights Consumers' League support and shifts in labor ethics.
A Topeka paper claims many domestic servants leave for clerkships creating a service deficiency and blames Sheldon’s story Born to Serve for reflecting such society. It notes the domestic heroine faces snubs at a Christian Endeavor meeting and contrasts Mrs Phelps Ward The Successors to Mary the First where the mistress treats maids as friends, yet is snubbed by would be staff for lacking fine furniture and a large establishment.
A compact August feature from Good Housekeeping highlights Mary the First as a central figure. The piece presents guidance, trends, and practical tips relevant to readers in the period, emphasizing household management and household economy.
A Pittsfield farm tale recalls a girl from the Fresh-Air group who, upon seeing a field of daisies, wept with delight and clutched the blossoms as she wandered the rails and later filled her bag with flowers. The August Ladies Home Journal features Elliot Walker's poem The Fresh Air Child about the scene.
Miss Ora V. Eddleman edits the Twin Territories magazine, published in the Indian and Oklahoma territories. She is one sixteenth Cherokee and travels into Indian homes, drawing attention to the tribes and their legends through a young woman’s frontier journalism.
The Women's Educational and Industrial Union of Boston keeps its classrooms open through summer, a departure from prior practice, with dressmaking classes drawing strong attendance. Plans for a fall rest room to aid tired shoppers and clubgoers are under consideration while Oklahoma’s growing club movement gains attention.
Shipping records show iron and freight goods moved via the Boston and Lowell, Old Colony, and Boston and Maine Railroads. Receipts confirm forwarding of merchandise as listed, detailing routes and consignments across the three lines.
A small meeting in a modest room celebrates the rise of women’s clubs across Oklahoma and Indian Territories. From ten clubs and 200 members in 1898 the federation grew to 36 clubs and 980 members, led by Mrs Selwyn Douglas, with Guthrie housing a city federation driving local progress.
The Citizen lists a midday menu with breakfast items including chilled melon creamed rice boiled eggs and buttered toast served with coffee. Luncheon features shrimps in tomato cases lettuce sandwiches and country plum charlotte with tea.
A historical menu lists courses including cold wine soup, braised ducklings with cucumber fritters, browned potato balls, tomato jelly, piquant dressing, berry pot pie, and iced coffee. The concise spread showcases classic fare and inviting dessert ideas.
Remove the shrimp veins and chop to a cupful. Prepare five tomatoes by hollowing and draining. Melt butter and brown onion lightly, add tomato pulp and reduce by half. Stir in bread crumbs, off heat add cream, shrimp, salt, and paprika. Fill tomato cases, top with buttered crumbs, bake until brown, serve on buttered bread rounds.
Instructions describe making a cold plum dish: plums boiled, sugar added, buttered bread slices line the dish, plums poured in boiling hot, cooled gradually, served cold with cream. Includes regimen of steps and serving suggestion.
Heat slowly one pint of wine with one quart of water. Add six cassia buds six cloves six caraway seeds and a sprinkling of paprika a grating of nutmeg and a teaspoonful of orange flavored water. Just before boiling add a tablespoon of arrowroot dissolved in warm soup. Simmer fifteen minutes strain and cool. Serve cold in bouillon cups.
Make a batter from flour salt and baking powder with paprika and water. Beat eggs separately and fold in oil and vinegar. Slice cucumbers lengthwise, dip in batter, fry until brown, drain, and dust lightly with salt and paprika. Pairs well with game.
A recipe describes tomato jelly molded in brick form or small oblong boxes served on lettuce leaves. Sauce mixes grated horse radish and vinegar with salt and cayenne, then adds whipped cream and more vinegar for a final tang.
A recipe instructs boiling sugar and water for six minutes, adding a quart of berries, boiling once, dropping tiny biscuit dumplings on top, covering tightly, boiling twenty minutes, then serving hot with butter and berry sauce. The method encourages a rapid boil and a light dumpling crust to pair with the berries.
American Golf: U S players spend about five million dollars yearly on gutta percha golf balls. The article details ball aging, molding, seasoning, and painting processes, noting imports from Britain and the lengthy production cycle that keeps stocks high. It contrasts early feather balls with gutta percha and mentions cheaper substitutes and flight dynamics.
A Chicago homemaker suggests cooling summer menus with cold dishes. Cheese Cream blends eggs milk salt paprika Parmesan and gelatine set with whipped cream, served in a mould and garnished with parsley. Leftovers can be sliced and served on brown or graham bread with paprika.
A simple loaf recipe mixes deviled ham bread crumbs and milk with eggs and salt. The mixture bakes in a buttered pan for an hour in a moderate oven and is served cold sliced with parsley or watercress garnish.
Seed two green peppers and boil two to three minutes then shred. Cut lettuce leaves into ribbons separately. Slice and shred three tomatoes and remove grapefruit pulp. Season each component with French dressing and arrange on a serving dish with light and dark lettuce circles around the others.
Recipe details for Egg Plant Salad with sauteed egg plant diced and dressed with a radish cream dressing and watercress sprinkled on top. Also instructions for Cucumber Salad for Fish crisp cucumbers soaked in cold water, sliced lengthwise, served with trench dressing, portioned one half cucumber per person.
Clean and truss the turkey and parboil one cup of rice. Mix with chestnuts currants and almonds, season with salt white pepper and cinnamon. Melt butter fold in the mixture and stuff the turkey. Bake on a rack basting often and dredge with flour. Serve with rich gravy.
Beat four egg yolks until thick then gradually mix in one cup powdered sugar. Fold in stiff egg whites, one third cup grated chocolate, half cup ground almonds and three quarters cup cracker dust with one teaspoon baking powder. Bake in tins twenty five minutes. Remove centres, fill with sweetened whipped cream, top with candied cherries.
Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse invited seven renowned German artists to Darmstadt offering salary building lots rent free for five years and no obligation to work. Four married artists began constructing houses and a plan for exhibiting them as art grew with four neighboring plots joined by a central studio building, a restaurant a temporary theatre and a picture gallery making twelve structures. Everything shown was designed by one of the seven artists and produced under his guidance not merely painters.
Prepare a dough from half a pound of flour four ounces of sugar and three ounces of butter with two small eggs half a teaspoon vanilla and a pinch of soda. Roll to penny thickness cut shapes bake slowly. Toast almonds with sugar and orange flower water, dip biscuits, brush with egg, top with more almonds, then dry before serving.
Two cupfuls finely chopped meat plus three and a half cups stock and white pepper simmer with butter salt parsley bay leaf and onion until thick. Scoop baked biscuit centers, fill with meat, replace tops, heat through in oven.
The article notes artists who master multiple fields and sometimes design entire houses and objects. It cites J. Q. Adams on the Darmstadt colony and contrasts with a Derby Connecticut incident where a pastor had a sudden act of frenzy fleeing into woods, chased by hornets nesting in a rural mail box and ending in a reservoir two miles away.
This recipe guides cleaning cabbage, boiling in salted water with baking soda, draining and pressing to remove moisture, then layering with a white sauce and grated cheese in a pudding dish. Top with buttered crumbs and bake until bubbly before serving in the same dish.
A Sirloin steak inch and a half thick is broiled in a double broiler. Onions are thinly fried in butter until just lightly colored. The meat is cooked near the coals for ten minutes, then moved away and finished with salt pepper butter and parsley. Serves with lightly baked onions on top.
A recipe describes frying onion in butter then mixing it with bread soaked in water minced fowl and livers. Add two beaten eggs, chill, prepare pancake batter, fry two pancakes, layer meat between, chill, cut into shapes, sauté to a yellow and serve as cutlets.
Mash and press fresh fruit or berries through a colander and sieve to remove seeds. Sweeten with lemon or orange juice, then add gelatin soaked in water and dissolved in hot water. Mix with the fruit on ice until it begins to set, fold in whipped cream, and mold to chill.
Parboil sweetbreads in salted water with lemon juice. Remove veins and membranes, cut in halves lengthwise, dredge with salt and flour, and brown in hot butter. Serve with cream sauce thickened with yolks and hot cream, finished with lemon juice.
This excerpt describes making a lemon sponge by grating lemon zest, dissolving gelatine in water, adding lemon juice and sugar, cooling, then folding in beaten egg whites and whisking until the mixture holds its shape. The method yields a light gelled dessert texture.
To one quart of boiling milk add flour to batter then lukewarm yeast and salt. Let rise until light, stir in soda eggs and melted butter, add flour to dough, form small rounds, rise fifteen minutes and bake slowly.
Wash one quart of clams from shells with cold water. Save liquor and add to it chopped hard parts. Strain and pour gradually over one third cup butter and flour cooked together. Scald one quart milk with an onion slice, remove onion, add milk and soft clams to broth. Cook three to four minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
Separate the whites and yolks of three eggs and whisk the whites to a very stiff froth with a pinch of salt. Fold in half a pound of powdered sugar and six ounces of dessicated or freshly grated coconut. Shape teaspoonfuls into cones, bake quickly on buttered paper until golden brown.
Peel two pounds potatoes cut into strips fry in hot fat until golden drain and pile on a baking dish. Sprinkle with grated Parmesan cheese add seasoning and chopped parsley then bake four minutes in a hot oven and serve immediately
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